A page for reflection on my archive of works gone past.
My 2020 design portfolio.
Titled ‘Designing in a Wicked world’, this portfolio is broken into it’s three parts. Each a Wicked Problem in its own right.
Each of my six projects over the year aimed to find small solutions in the face adveristy. Each an expression of a concept in its most appropriate medium.
Each of my six projects over the year aimed to find small solutions in the face adveristy. Each an expression of a concept in its most appropriate medium.
“THEY MUST BE BLIND” (#STOPARMINGSAUDI) - Photography, Film & Installation- 2019
For this Amnesty International live brief we were asked to pick up their #stoparmingsaudi campaign and increase its awareness and support. Choosing to shed light on the UK’s part in the bombing of Yemen, we chose to build our amended campaign around the slogan “They must be blind, but we can see”. This is a reference to statistics such as: B.E.A. Systems having made ten times the amount in arms sales to Saudi Arabia than the British public have donated in humanitarian aid for Yemen, the country those same arms are being dropped on.
“Holiday in a holiday Town” - Photographic book - 2018
Taking the painters term
holiday to mean missed gap
in fresh paint, we play off this to create a publication
celebrating Folkstone's holidays.
A seaside holiday flush with refurbishment but the most beautiful bits got left behind. A perfect imperfection left in the book itself is a homage to those parts of Folkstone left behind by the progression of time.
A seaside holiday flush with refurbishment but the most beautiful bits got left behind. A perfect imperfection left in the book itself is a homage to those parts of Folkstone left behind by the progression of time.
“We take drugs” - Photography - 2018
Based on research that indicated that the youth of the UK have the highest recreational drug consumption per capita, this piece uses the visual aesthetic of club photography to draw attention to the growing issue.
“Post Brexit Britan” - Research, Print & Data Visualization - 2019
This is
a speculative project with a creative concept that I developed in order to highlight
some of the unsavoury aspects of the Brexit deal. Both myself and my
collaborator have an immigrant parent, so we decided to explore the dystopian
future timeline of a Brexit that required all residents of the UK to have two
British born parents in order to remain in the country. This print based
project made predictions about the future set out in a way that would engage
rather than repel. We chose a simple
exaggeration of the prevailing narrative to provide a clear extrapolated
example of why the UK should retain its historical open policy towards
immigration.
Extinction Rebellion - 2019 - 2021
The
Extinction Rebellion movement is a cause I have participated heavily in and
something I found very powerful. Their actions in April 2019 managed to permanently
change the media’s narrative of the climate crisis. Here is a collection of my contributions, as photography and a selection of work to further direct action.
Digital Drawings - 2018 - 2022
“Digital Eye”
“ Trapped inside our phones with nothing but the four walls of lockdown to keep us occupied.
Our digital reality seeping through the walls of fictitious fallacy.
We are left with nothing but a memory of the world that existed before. “
“ Trapped inside our phones with nothing but the four walls of lockdown to keep us occupied.
Our digital reality seeping through the walls of fictitious fallacy.
We are left with nothing but a memory of the world that existed before. “
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